How to Film YouTube Videos on Your Phone

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00:00Hey guys, welcome back to the channel.

00:01In this video, we're talking about how to get started

00:03on YouTube using just your iPhone.

00:05And so this video is shot entirely on my iPhone XS Max.

00:08And I'm gonna be sharing a few tips and tricks,

00:10but hopefully trying to make the point

00:11that if you're thinking of starting a YouTube channel

00:13or getting into filming and stuff,

00:14you don't need to wait for a fancy camera

00:17or save up for this, that, and the other.

00:19All you need is your iPhone or Android phone

00:22if you're one of those heathens.

00:23And you can just get started pretty much from now on,

00:25provided you keep a few things in mind.

00:27So yeah, in this video,

00:28we're gonna be talking about five things.

00:30We're gonna be talking about video quality

00:31using a certain app,

00:33audio quality using external microphones,

00:35lighting, framing, and additional lenses

00:38and kind of the equipment

00:39that you might like to add on top of it.

00:41But really, you can just get started using just your iPhone

00:43and hopefully I'll be making that point

00:44throughout this video.

00:46So let's start with video quality.

00:47And that's obviously the most important thing.

00:49Although some people say audio quality is more important,

00:51but let's ignore that.

00:51Video quality, you don't really get

00:53from the default iPhone camera app.

00:55And for most, I don't know much about Android phones,

00:57but I suspect their default camera apps

00:59are not great either.

01:00The app that you wanna use,

01:01the app that most people recommend,

01:02that I would recommend is called Filmic Pro.

01:04And the great thing about this app

01:06is that you can manually control

01:08a lot of the camera settings.

01:09So there's a few different settings

01:11that we wanna change when we open up the app.

01:13And the main one is the frame rate.

01:15Normally with iPhone videos,

01:16they film in 30 frames per second,

01:18but it's either 24 or 25 frames per second

01:21that look more cinematic.

01:22Like 30 is just a little bit too smooth

01:24and looks kind of like iPhone video,

01:26which isn't really the vibe that we wanna be going for,

01:28unless you wanna go for that vibe,

01:29in which case, you know, you do you.

01:30But at the moment, I'm shooting in 25 frames per second,

01:33and that is the same frame rate

01:34that I shoot with my fancy cameras and stuff.

01:36And hopefully that looks quite reasonable.

01:38Secondly, we wanna be adjusting the resolution

01:40and the bit rate.

01:41And this sounds complicated,

01:41but basically we wanna film in 4K resolution

01:43because we might as well,

01:44and most modern phones offer that.

01:46And then we wanna crank up the bit rate

01:48to as high as it possibly can be.

01:50On iPhones, this is called Filmic Extreme.

01:52I think on Android, it's like 100 megabits per second,

01:55something along those lines

01:56that basically means there's more information encoded,

01:59but it takes up a bigger file size.

02:00High file size, better quality,

02:01that's the way that I would recommend going personally.

02:03And then just a few other things.

02:04You wanna set your white balance

02:05so that it doesn't vary massively.

02:07And you wanna change your shutter speed

02:09to one over 50th of a second.

02:11And there's this kind of rule with filmmaking

02:13that if your frame rate is 25,

02:15you want your shutter to be double that,

02:16so one over 50.

02:18This is called the 180 degree rule.

02:20Essentially, that gives you the best amount

02:22of the most cinematic motion blur.

02:24When I'm moving my hands like this,

02:25I tend to talk a lot with my hands,

02:27this should hopefully look semi-natural, fairly natural.

02:30Whereas if I cranked up the shutter speed really high,

02:32like one over 200, it would look a lot more choppy

02:34because it's not quite what we're used to seeing.

02:36This all sounds complicated,

02:37but essentially once you've got these settings set once,

02:40you can just save a preset on Filmic Pro,

02:42then you never have to touch them again.

02:43And there's tons and tons of tutorials on YouTube

02:46where they show you in depth how to get Filmic Pro

02:49and get the right settings for your liking.

02:51But yeah, most important thing for decent video quality

02:54is to not use a default camera app,

02:55but to use something like Filmic Pro instead,

02:57and hopefully that'll make a big difference

02:58to video quality.

03:00Okay, now let's talk about audio.

03:01And arguably audio is even more important than video quality

03:04because people will sit through a low quality video

03:07if the audio is good.

03:08But if you have the best quality video in the world,

03:10but your audio is crap,

03:11then no one's gonna wanna watch your video.

03:13And I've gotta be honest,

03:14I have kind of been cheating a little bit in this video

03:15in that I've been recording with my iPhone,

03:17but I've actually been externally recording audio

03:19using this Rode NTG4 mic

03:21connected to an external audio recorder.

03:24But now I'm gonna show you what it sounds like

03:26using just the iPhone,

03:27just so, you know, if you don't have this sort of setup,

03:29you don't really need it.

03:30So this is what the audio from the iPhone sounds like

03:32just on its own.

03:33Hopefully you'll hear the difference

03:35between this expensive audio setup and the iPhone recording,

03:38but hopefully you'll see that actually,

03:39if you were just getting started on YouTube

03:41with just your phone,

03:42this actually wouldn't be too bad.

03:44It wouldn't be the sort of audio quality

03:45that people would be like,

03:46oh God, that's garbage,

03:47I'm gonna turn it off immediately.

03:48But luckily there is kind of a middle ground

03:50between standard iPhone with nothing attached

03:52and this kind of fancy audio setup.

03:54And that is using a small microphone

03:56like the Rode VideoMicro.

03:58And that sets you back by about 30 or $40.

04:00So I'm gonna plug that in

04:02and we'll show you what the audio sounds like

04:04from the Rode VideoMicro.

04:05So at the moment I have to stop this recording

04:07and unplug my phone.

04:10Okay, so let's get rid of that lightning cable.

04:11And I'm using the Rode VideoMicro about 50, $40,

04:15something like that from Amazon.

04:17And I've connected it to the iPhone

04:18using the lightning to headphone adapter

04:20that comes with the phone.

04:21And this is like this other Rode cable

04:23that costs about $7.

04:24So for about $50, we've got this microphone connected

04:27and I've got it mounted to this random phone mount

04:30that you can get off Amazon for about 10 quid or $10

04:33or whatever your currency is.

04:35So now let's hear what it sounds like with this microphone.

04:37Okay, so this is a test of the Rode VideoMicro

04:39attached to the iPhone.

04:40And you can hopefully see that this hopefully

04:42sounds a little bit better than default iPhone microphone,

04:45but hopefully it doesn't sound quite as good

04:47as the audio coming directly from this audio recorder.

04:50All right, now let's talk about lighting.

04:52And as you can see, I'm sitting next

04:53to this massive ass window,

04:54which is providing some pretty decent natural lighting.

04:56So even if you don't have the money to spend

04:59on a lighting setup or lighting rig or whatever,

05:01you can just sit next to a window

05:02and hopefully this looks pretty reasonable.

05:04Then if I wanted to, I could get my kind of fancy

05:07Aputure 120D Mark II lights.

05:10And I could kind of bring that in, swing that around

05:12so it's pointing at me.

05:13I could turn it on using the remote control,

05:15wherever it is.

05:16And then yeah, if I wanted to,

05:17I could actually change the ISO setting on FiLMiC Pro

05:19so that it dims the lightness a bit.

05:21But you'll see this doesn't actually make

05:22that much difference to the video.

05:23Like lighting is super important,

05:25but just something like standing next to a big window

05:28has quite a good effect.

05:30So let's see if I can kind of dim this light

05:31so that it looks a bit better.

05:33Something like that.

05:34So this is with light, this is without light.

05:36Honestly, I don't know.

05:37It doesn't really make that much difference.

05:38So it's big window, lighting.

05:41Lighting is pretty much sorted.

05:42And again, lighting doesn't need to be one of those things.

05:44If you watch, for example, my behind the scenes video

05:47or Peter McKinnon's video showing how he makes his videos,

05:49it can look quite intimidating

05:50seeing these big expensive light domes and stuff.

05:54But really, you don't need that to get started.

05:56And over time, yeah,

05:57it's definitely worth investing in a light.

05:58And I'm really glad I spent the $1,000

06:00that it costs for this particular light.

06:01But you get pretty decent results

06:03just sitting next to a window.

06:05So that's absolutely fine.

06:06Okay, fourthly, let's talk about framing the shot.

06:08And I don't know if you can see,

06:09but I've got my iPhone connected to my MacBook

06:12and I'm just using QuickTime Player

06:14and QuickTime Player is allowing me

06:15to mimic what's on my iPhone screen.

06:17I think using the selfie camera on the iPhone

06:19gives you less good picture quality.

06:21So I'm using the normal camera,

06:22but to see what I'm filming,

06:23I've got it connected to my laptop

06:25and therefore I don't need anything fancy like a monitor.

06:28I've got a small HD monitor that costs 500 pounds

06:31that attaches to a camera.

06:32This is basically doing the exact same thing.

06:34Most of us have a laptop.

06:35Most of us have some kind of device

06:36we can attach our phones to.

06:37And so you can mirror the screen

06:38and monitor yourself that way.

06:40And therefore you can get all of the framing that you want.

06:42You don't have to be kind of off to the side

06:44because you couldn't see yourself.

06:45Yeah, this is a very easy way to do the framing.

06:47And then also in terms of extra gear.

06:48So over here I've got the iPhone

06:51sitting on this random no brand phone tripod thing.

06:56I'll put a few links to Amazon in the video description.

06:58The important thing about that

06:59is that it's got a cold shoe mount on the top,

07:01which means this Rode VideoMicro can attach nicely to it.

07:05So yeah, this is the microphone.

07:07It's tiny and it just screws nicely onto this mount,

07:10which is a very easy way to attach it to the phone.

07:12And then if I were to vlog, for example,

07:14I could just take the setup, take it off the tripod,

07:16and I'd have a vlog setup with a decent audio

07:19because I've got the microphone connected to it.

07:20And then that's just connected to a standard tripod.

07:22I just happen to have these lying around.

07:24This is the Joby GorillaPod head.

07:25Again, it doesn't really matter what I'm using.

07:26The point is that you can connect any tripod to your phone,

07:30provided you have one of these phone mounts.

07:32And it's a very easy thing to get

07:33that you can buy for a few dollars off Amazon.

07:35Like if you want, you can go really ghetto

07:37and end up just kind of propping up your phone

07:39on a stack of textbooks or anything like that.

07:41But you know, if you're serious about starting YouTube,

07:42my recommendation is that you get started

07:44with just your phone and over time,

07:46you can then add stuff to it so that it's never an excuse

07:48that, oh, I can't afford camera gear as an excuse

07:51as to why you're not starting a YouTube channel.

07:52It's just like an internal battle of, oh, okay,

07:54I need to get over the fear of looking foolish.

07:56I need to get over my fear of public speaking.

07:57I'm just gonna do it

07:58because starting a YouTube channel is great

07:59and leads to lots of good things happening in life.

08:02And finally, I just want to talk about extra lenses

08:04that you can use.

08:04So this is an extra wide angle lens

08:06that I got from Sandmarc.

08:07They very kindly sent it to me.

08:08It's not sponsored, but yeah,

08:09they did send me the lenses to review.

08:11And this is quite nice

08:12because if you attach it to the iPhone,

08:14like I'm gonna do now,

08:14then what it does once it's attached

08:16is that it makes the angle more wide.

08:18So if we go back to the iPhone shot,

08:20you'll see that this is now a much wider shot.

08:22I look further back.

08:23You can now see the microphone

08:24and I'm just kind of monitoring this

08:25on the laptop behind me.

08:26So what I would do in this case

08:27is I would move the table closer.

08:29Hopefully then you won't see all of the crap that's behind

08:32and we can just see the iPad.

08:33I move a little closer.

08:34I move this microphone a bit more up,

08:36make sure it stays out of the frame,

08:38but still gets decent audio quality

08:41because it's close enough to my mouth.

08:42Get this camera out of the way.

08:44Get this corporation tax thing out of the way.

08:46You'll see, I have to change up the framing slightly,

08:48but some people prefer this sort of more

08:50wide angle way of filming.

08:52And actually, you know,

08:52I'm not a huge fan of being so far away from the camera.

08:55So what I normally do is I use a wide angle lens,

08:57even on my normal camera,

08:58and then I sit quite close to it.

09:00And that has the benefit that if you're not using

09:02an external audio recorder like I am,

09:03then you're closer to something like the iPhone

09:05or the Rode VideoMicro,

09:06which means you get slightly better audio quality

09:08because you're closer to the camera

09:10because you're using a wide angle lens.

09:12So, I mean, Sandmarc have loads of other lenses as well.

09:14They also sent me their macro lens and a tele lens

09:16and the anamorphic lens,

09:17which I'm going to play around with at some point.

09:19But yeah, if you want to go for a slightly different look

09:22than the standard iPhone framing,

09:23you can use like an external lens or something,

09:25just kind of screw it onto your phone and then it works.

09:27But yeah, hopefully the main point I've made on this video

09:29is that you don't actually need a lot

09:31to start a YouTube channel and to start filming.

09:32Like you can just do everything with just your iPhone.

09:34Yeah, the audio is not going to sound that amazing,

09:36but it's perfect to get started.

09:38And you can always upgrade later on to the Rode VideoMicro

09:41and you can then spend an extra $20 getting a tripod.

09:43Then if you really want,

09:44you can spend $50 on a lighting setup.

09:46And over time you build up your YouTube thing.

09:48And then eventually when, if you really want to,

09:50you can like a graduate to getting a camera.

09:52But I've spoken to a lot of people

09:54because people messaging me via Instagram and stuff

09:56and asking for advice

09:57for things like starting YouTube channels.

09:59And a distressing amount of them have said stuff like,

10:01oh, I'd love to start a YouTube channel,

10:02but I don't have the money for a camera.

10:05Even though they've got like the latest iPhone

10:06or like a Google Pixel or like a Galaxy S8, S9, S10,

10:09whatever, you know, all modern phones are capable

10:11of filming in very, very good quality.

10:13They all have reasonable audio as well.

10:14And you can always upgrade audio if you really feel like it.

10:16But yeah, hopefully this video gave you a little bit

10:19of a taste, a bit of a flavour

10:20about how to get started on YouTube using just your iPhone.

10:23If you liked the video, please give it a thumbs up.

10:25Over here, we've also got a few videos about, you know,

10:28in this Creator Diaries series,

10:29where I talk about the behind the scenes of my own setup,

10:31including all the camera gear and stuff.

10:33So have a look at that if you feel like it.

10:34But yeah, thanks for watching

10:35and I'll see you in the next video.

10:36Bye-bye.

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